University of Cincinnati Associate Prof. and Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Chair in Judaic Studies Jennifer Caplan will present the talk, No Joke: Jewish Humor and the Survival of American Judaism, at 5 p.m., Monday, March 3, at University of Dayton’s Sears Recital Hall in the Jesse Philips Humanities Center.

A scholar of American Judaism and popular culture, Caplan is the author of Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials.

The talk is free and open to the public. Visitor parking is available at Lot C. For more information, contact UD Religious Studies Assistant Prof. Abraham Rubin at arubin1@udayton.edu.

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